{"nrhp_refnum":"91001171","name":"Ragsdale Farm","other_names":["Magnolia Farms"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"404 E. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Jamestown","county":"Guilford County","state":"NC","lat":35.99561016700005,"lon":-79.93228222209868,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-09-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Agriculture","Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Ragsdale Farm is a roughly 39-acre country estate district at 404 E. Main Street, Jamestown, Guilford County, North Carolina, with a Colonial Revival house, outbuildings, tenant houses, gardens and pastures, evolved from an 1866 working farm.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is locally significant under criteria A, B and C for industry, education, agriculture and architecture. The Ragsdale family led Jamestown's Oakdale Cotton Mill, and Virginia Ragsdale earned a Ph.D. in mathematics and taught at N.C. Woman's College. The house, outbuildings and landscape show the shift from a typical nineteenth-century farm to a prosperous twentieth-century estate.","narrative":"Ragsdale Farm is a country estate of about thirty-nine acres in Jamestown, North Carolina, set between East Main Street and the Southern Railway tracks. Joseph Sinclair Ragsdale bought the first part of the farm in 1866, and later generations of his family turned it from a working farm into a prosperous country estate. The main house grew in stages, with an 1880 enlargement and a 1900 remodeling that gave it its Colonial Revival character, followed by Georgian interior work in 1948. Around it are tenant houses, a horse barn, a cow barn, coops, a corncrib and other outbuildings, along with formal gardens and open pastures. The family shaped local industry through leadership of the Oakdale Cotton Mill. Virginia Ragsdale earned a doctorate in mathematics from Bryn Mawr in 1903 and later headed the mathematics department at North Carolina College for Women. The property was recognized for its connections to industry, education, agriculture and architecture between 1866 and 1941.","period_of_significance":"1866-1941","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial Revival; Other: Traditional Agricultural","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Described as retaining a high level of integrity; the house, gardens and outbuildings remain, though the pastures are no longer cultivated. Current functions include single dwelling, garden and agricultural outbuildings.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.866227-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/30/7206/47720630/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/91001171.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720630","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragsdale_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19987724"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/guilford-county/ragsdale-farm-91001171/"}